Sidney Poitier Joins Author Angella Nazarian at Beverly Hills Civic Center

Beverly Hills, CA – Oscar winning actor Sidney Poitier will be appearing with Life As A Visitor author Angella Nazarian at the Beverly Hills Civic Center on Sunday, October 18th.  The event will showcase Ms. Nazarian’s recently released book – a look at the universal journey we face in finding our sense of ‘home’ in our community and within ourselves.

Event Details:
Sunday, October 18, 2009 - 3pm
Beverly Hills Civic Center Plaza, adjacent to the Beverly Hills Public Library
444 N. Rexford Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Free parking is available in the municipal lot adjacent to the Library

Forced to flee to the United States after the violent Iranian Revolution of 1979 at age eleven, author Angella Nazarian’s Life As A Visitor chronicles her difficult and triumphant journey from Iran to Beverly Hills, CA. Incorporating both prose and poetry, Nazarian creates a mosaic of thoughts, emotions and locations that allows readers an intimate and inside look at what life is like for an immigrant caught between two cultures.  Life As A Visitor inspires readers to reflect upon the influences which shape us – and the importance of “Realizing that home is not a place but a state of mind, and belonging is not merely a feeling, but also an action.”

Mr. Poitier, who will be introducing Ms. Nazarian, spent his childhood years in Cat Island, Bahamas, before moving to the United States at 15 to live with his older brother in Miami.  Mr. Poitier was the first African American actor to win an Academy Award.  He has been awarded the Screen Actors Guild’s highest honor, the Life Achievement Award, for outstanding career and humanitarian accomplishments and was recently given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.

Books may be purchased at the event and Ms. Nazarian will be available for signing after the program. 

To make reservations for the event, please call 310-288-2220.  This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Beverly Hills Public Library